OF SAMUEL HARTLIB. 25 



Heart," which is quizzed by the imaginary sign of the 

 " Guilt-Cup," perhaps punning on " Gilt-Cup." 



Writing about his books, in a letter to Dr. Wor- 

 thington, 22nd [N'ov. 1(561, he says : — " If Petroeus call 

 upon me (or upon any other occasions) I shall not fail, 

 God willing, to enquire whether Josephus be in the 

 press or at Leyden. It is likely they are acquainted 

 with Cocceius, Nisselius, and Elzevir ; but to look into 

 my catalogue of books printed in Holland is no more 

 in my power, the wretched man (where all my books 

 stood) having suffered (with a world of other MSS.) 

 distraction [destruction?] or embezzlement, so that I 

 cannot as yet tell what is remaining or not, the cata- 

 logues themselves being lost or made away." 



On this event Mr. Crossley, as editor of Dr. Wor- 

 thington's Diary, remarks : — 



''Hartlib was particularly unfortunate in this respect. 

 A fire afterwards occurred, as he mentions in a subse- 

 quent letter, from which his papers and MSS. received 

 great damage. Had the whole of his MS. collection 

 and Correspondence been preserved entire, they would 

 have formed an admirable foundation for the Literary 

 and Philosophical History of England in the middle 

 of the seventeenth century." 



In the Addenda to Pepys's Diary (VoL V., p. 221,) 

 the noble editor states that : — " Nan Hartlib was sister 

 to Samuel Hartlib." 



Pepys mentions this lady in his Diary on the 10th 



